China disputes against countries in the East and South of China Sea are not going to be finished in a short period of time as conflict may just be sorted out after so many pressure acts and tensions amongst actors. Japan is developing a medium period military plan to face China aspirations over all resources that can be found at China´s seas. Thus, the approval of a more than 40 billion of dollars’ defense plan is just another step for Japan to develop an army that could be easily moved to the East China sea, ready to deal with amphibious war and which its first priority is to seal and protect the Senkaku islands.

Actually, the situation on China seas does not stop from growing worse as militarization of the islands goes on and on. The countries considered themselves with the right to take those resources so, they have started to militarize those islands in order to achieve control over disputed areas and now the world knows that any international court will stop China from asking for them. Maybe because of that, Japan and Korea formed a non-formal alliance with the US, and alliance that is also growing to stop China and that may also be seen on media this week as US is arming more Korean and Japanese warships with AEGIS defense systems, which is such a modern missile system.

On the other side, North Korea is also improving its capacity as it is now able to launch missiles from submarines. Thus, and maybe to celebrate the two gold medals gained by its people at last Olympics, it has launched three missiles this week to the Japanese sea. As it is known, Kim Yong Un always plays the same game, a game his father taught him; launching missiles instead of communicating with the rest of the world. However, although these missiles are intended to let the rest they exist, they have become so useful for China in case there is trouble. Thus, the China’s disputes could be such a great excuse for North Korea to use what it is developing. To make things worse, at the beginning of August, Russia made his way into the conflict as Chinese ally by joining its warships along with the Chinese ones, just as an “exercise”.

We are seeing another example of how this world goes as it may be seen in Syria and it stand out that tensions between two superpowers does not seem over, it actually seems as alive as always and, according to what we see, China seas are just another scenario where it happens the same: countries confront each other asking for bigger ones to help and they arm third ones in order to avoid fighting themselves. It seems nice plan but, as US should know, the countries your arm now may become your next enemy in the future.